[queenkjuul]

Gas prices affect very nearly everyone in America. High housing prices benefit the most vocal middle class constituencies (ie boomer homeowners)

Rent is a bigger consideration for most people i know, but most people i know take public transit.

Also keep in mind: people's rents don't suddenly triple in the span of a month when the president starts another illegal war... The shock value of gas, uh, shocks makes it easier to talk about than the slow relentless squeezing of the working class via rent increases that outpace inflation and wages